LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. By Victor Sebestyen. Pantheon. 592 pages. $35. "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" is one ...

IF all the political figures during the last century, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, casts the largest and most lingering historical shadow. Without the revolution he set into motion, ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...

Biography: Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait, Victor Sebestyen, W&N, hdbk, 592 pages, €35 Mural of Vladimir Lenin. Photo: Getty A humanising biography of the Russian revolutionary sidelines his ...

A full century since seizing the reigns of the Russian state from the grip of a weak cabinet and an ousted royal dynasty, Vladimir Lenin can still draw a crowd in Russia's capital, Moscow. But the ...

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